The Piano Player: Classical Tear-Jerkers presents 20 emotive pieces of classical music, designed to tug at the heart-strings, specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Un bel di vedremo" from Madama Butterfly by Puccini and Dido's Lament by Purcell. The striking cover features Edward Bawden's colour linocut Aesop's Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper, 1970, and a 4-page pullout provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible. The Piano Player series includes six wonderful collections of some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out poster of the stunning Edward Bawden cover artwork. "

Alma Mahler-Werfel was one of the most fascinating and ambivalent of twentieth-century women. Her book "Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters" (1940) includes 159 of Mahler's letters, yet only 37 of these were published in their original, unedited form. Alma's omissions, abridgements and alterations were all part of the legend, and reveal that it was her intention to present herself in as flattering a light as possible. This new edition restores the original texts, and includes a further 188 letters as well as other, hitherto unpublished documents. The letters are supplemented by commentaries, which provide background information about the people and events mentioned in them, and help place the letters in their cultural and historical context. These documents depict a close and sometimes explosive relationship between two people of widely differing background, character and temperament. The Mahler that emerges from these authentic, unabridged sources is warmer and more touchingly human than the figure as presented by Alma in her expurgated selection of Memories and Letters.

Complex symphony integrates on a truly grand scale the musical ideas, forms and media that dominated the composer's creative life. A two-part work, the symphony is scored for orchestra, eight solo voices, double chorus, boys' choir and organ. A monumental masterpiece, affordably priced for students, performers and Mahler admirers.

Gustav Mahler spent 14 years exploring the musical potential of German folk poetry, and this volume comprises some of his most significant work. It features authoritative editions of his settings of five poems by Friedrich Rückert, known as the Rückert Lieder: "Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder" (Look not, love, on my work unended); "Ich atmet einen linden Duft" (I breathed the breath of blossoms red); "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" (O garish world, long since thou hast lost me); "Um Mitternacht" (At midnight hour); and "Liebst du um Schonheit" (Lovst thou but beauty). A pair of songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Miraculous Horn) are also featured: "Revelge" (The dead drummer) and "Der Tamboursg'sell" (The drummer-boy).

Mahler's penultimate symphony recieved its premiere performance in Munich on September 12th, 1910 with a chorus of about 850, and an orchestra of 171. These massive forces led to Mahler's agent dubbing the work "Symphony of a Thousand." Mahler did not approve of the title at all, but it remains. The piece was a great success at its premiere, one of few of Mahler's works to be well received in his lifetime. It was the last premiere of one his works that Mahler witnessed before his death. Unabridged digitally enhanced reprint of the vocal score prepared by Josef Woss that was first published in 1910 by Universal Edition, Vienna.

One of the composer's most popular, accessible works, the 7th has neither a "program" or folk-song theme. It is a purely instrumental composition, both hopeful and romantic in feeling. Reprinted from the authoritative German edition of 1909. List of instruments. Glossary of German terms.

Collection of ballets making up the Gala des Étoiles of 2015. David Coleman conducts the Teatro alla Scala in performances of, amongst others, 'La Rose Malade' by Gustav Mahler, 'The Dying Swan' by Camille Saint-Saëns and Aram Khatchaturian's 'Spartacus'.

Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in these performances of Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 9 and 10, recorded in 2009 and 2008, respectively.

Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in these performances of Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6, recorded in 2011 and 2013, respectively, at the Rheingau Musik Festival.

Valery Gergiev leads the World Orchestra for Peace in this performance of Mahler's fourth and fifth symphonies, recorded live at the 26th BBC Prom in August, 2010. The featured artist is soprano Camilla Tilling.

Mahler's arrangement of four Bach pieces - two each from the baroque master's Orchestral Suites Nos. 3 and 4 (BWV 1067, 1068) were prepared specially for a concert of the New York Philharmonic he conducted on November 10, 1909. Mahler's arrangement is quite unusual for its era and does not significantly depart from Bach's original in the forces required. Mahler's use of the harpsichord (he played the part himself at the premiere) is quite personal - adding the instrument to the orchestra a color more than the conventional continuo accompaniment function played in Bach's era. Mahler's re-working is itself within the Bach tradition as the Laeipzig master was no stranger at making adapations of earlier composers' works for his own concerts. This new study score is a digitally-enhanced reissue of the one first published by G. Schirmer in 1910. As with all PLP scores a percentage of each sale is donated to the amazing online archive of free music scores and recordings, IMSLP - Petrucci Music Library.

Two episodes from the documentary series featuring performances by the All-Star Orchestra, which is comprised of the best players from 30 American orchestras. As well as performances, the series includes interviews with the players and conductor Gerard Schwarz, providing insight into each piece of music. The episodes 'Music's Emotional Impact' and 'Mahler: Love, Sorrow and Transcendence' feature works by Tchaikovsky, David Stock, Mahler, Augusta Read Thomas and Bernard Rands.